The Gardener

Devlog

• 2-5-18 Update - Forest deck balance, speed up option, delayed monster card draw
  February 05, 2018 by Ben Costrell

  Altered the balance of the forest deck to have monsters spawn a bit more reliably earlier - might still not be enough though. Added option to speed up enemy turn. Changed functionality of monster card... Continue reading
• 1-31-18 Update: New cards
  January 31, 2018 by Ben Costrell

  New cards: Mulch, Double Snip, Swap, Apple Tree... Continue reading
• 1-20-18 Update - turning music back on, some bugfixes, faster monster scaling
  January 21, 2018 by Ben Costrell

  Mostly just turning the music back on now that we're not making a trailer, but also fixed a couple bugs and increased the rate that the monster tier increases (new monster introduced every level now,... Continue reading
• 1-18-18 Update: Movement UI change (NO MUSIC)
  January 18, 2018 by Ben Costrell

  Changed movement cards so that they can work both with the "click on space to queue, click again to move" method, and by just dragging them to play and add to your movement pool. This means they can a... Continue reading
• 12-17-17 Update - some visual polish
  December 18, 2017 by Ben Costrell

  New sprites for cards, using text mesh pro for UI text so that should be crisper, post processing, particles, etc. Also it's got a name now (for the moment)... Continue reading
• 12-11-17 Update - 2nd pass on art & some small tweaks
  December 11, 2017 by Ben Costrell

  Second draft of art assets... Continue reading
• 12-7-17 Update - New art assets: 1st draft of tileset
  December 07, 2017 by Ben Costrell

  Added in Blake's 1st draft of the tileset. Some other changes - bugfixes, monster cards also draw an additional card so the forest deck proportions stay constant... Continue reading
• 11-29-17 Update - New cards, forest deck down to 4 cards per turn
  November 29, 2017 by Ben Costrell

  Added some cool new cards - Lignify, Telekinesis, and Leapfrog. Also changed the forest deck to only draw 4 cards per turn, but adjusted the numbers of each other card so there are no "nothing cards"... Continue reading
• 11-27-17 Update: Sprout system
  November 28, 2017 by Ben Costrell

  Sprout system: Overgrowth & monsters now grow out of sprouts which are spread across the map (it's kinda imbalanced now though probably, need to tweak numbers). Also, drag controls should work now in... Continue reading
• 11-15-17 Update - Into the woods
  November 16, 2017 by Ben Costrell

  Game is now in the woods. New map generation, destructible brush, UI tweaks, etc... Continue reading
• 11-6-17 Update: Fountains, monster sequencing
  November 07, 2017 by Ben Costrell

  You no longer heal to max and gain a max health automatically after finishing each level. Now, fountains will spawn on the map that you can use to either heal fully or gain a max health. Also changed... Continue reading
• 11-1-17 Update - UI, dungeon deck changes
  November 01, 2017 by Ben Costrell

  Big UI update to make things more card-gamey, hopefully more usable and understandable. Dungeon deck now encompasses monster movement/attacking rather than it happening automatically each turn... Continue reading
• 10-18-17 Update: New cards, dungeon timer, etc
  October 18, 2017 by Ben Costrell

  Added some new cards, dungeon timer that adds monsters to the dungeon deck over the course of a level, bonus chest for completing a level, etc... Continue reading
• 10-4-17 Update - Deckbuilding, new movement UI
  October 04, 2017 by Ben Costrell

  Deckbuilding/collection system in place, you can now basically remake your deck at the start of each level. Minimum deck size increases by 1 each level starting at 10. Also new UI for playing movemen... Continue reading
• 9-27 update: traps, UI tweaks, music etc
  September 27, 2017 by Ben Costrell

  It's strategically important to note that you can discard cards from your hand by dragging them onto your discard pile UI (except sometimes when there's a bug and you can't)... Continue reading